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Planning & Prep

A beautiful quilt starts long before the first seam. Learn how to choose fabrics, organize your project, plan your layout, and prepare for a smoother, more enjoyable quilting experience.

Thoughts – Pep talk for New Quilters
Planning & Prep

Thoughts – Pep talk for New Quilters

Little Miss Sawtooth   I show little snippets of my garden on IG here and there, but I think this…

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Thoughts About Quilting
Planning & Prep | Quilting

Thoughts About Quilting

  I think it’s been a bit since I wrote a post that was only about some thoughts, but I…

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Thoughts on Hand Applique + Progress of Para Para Quilt
Planning & Prep | work in progress

Thoughts on Hand Applique + Progress of Para Para Quilt

  If you missed my previous post on Para Para, you can find it here.  I’m back at it and…

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Work In Progress – Para Para Quilt – Beginnings + Why seams are off sometimes
Planning & Prep | work in progress

Work In Progress – Para Para Quilt – Beginnings + Why seams are off sometimes

Fabrics Pictured Field Suede – Alma – By Alexia Abegg Butterscotch – Spark – Melody Miller Cactus – Add it…

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All About Scrappy Quilts
Planning & Prep

All About Scrappy Quilts

  Next Wednesday, I’m releasing my first set of scrappy patterns called Scrappy Pattern Pack.  With that pattern you get…

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Exploring the Many Ways of Binding A Quilt
Binding | Planning & Prep

Exploring the Many Ways of Binding A Quilt

  We all have a method of binding that we like best and that we think is the “best” way. …

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An Interview with Shelly from Havel’s Sewing + My favorite Havel’s products
Little Miss Sawtooth Quilt Along | Notions & Tools | Planning & Prep | product reviews

An Interview with Shelly from Havel’s Sewing + My favorite Havel’s products

  We start the Little Miss Sawtooth quilt along in 8 days!  I hope you are ready! The quilt along…

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A Guide for the Beginner Quilter + Tips from Experienced Quilters
Planning & Prep

A Guide for the Beginner Quilter + Tips from Experienced Quilters

  With the release of my Patchwork + Make class this week I’m on the topic of the beginner quilter. …

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A Scrappy Low Volume Background Guide
Planning & Prep

A Scrappy Low Volume Background Guide

  This is a topic that I get asked about on a weekly basis and I thought it was high…

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The Great Big Scrap Discussion – Part 3 – Tips + Patterns
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The Great Big Scrap Discussion – Part 3 – Tips + Patterns

This post is part of a 4-series of posts dedicated to the topic of fabric scraps. Find all the posts…

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The Great BIG Scrap Discussion – Part 2- Cutting + Storing
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The Great BIG Scrap Discussion – Part 2- Cutting + Storing

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The Great BIG Scrap Discussion – Part 1- What is a fabric scrap?
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The Great BIG Scrap Discussion – Part 1- What is a fabric scrap?

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This one is called Well Loved. And I love the plai This one is called Well Loved. And I love the plaid effect 🥰 this is another mini from my new book, Book of Many Mini Quilts. It’s also my favorite thing I’ve ever quilted. The book releases Thursday. Find it at https://meanderandmake.com/kits/book-of-many-mini-quilts/
This one is called Inner Bloom. Another mini from This one is called Inner Bloom. Another mini from my new book, Book of Many Mini Quilts. It’s also my favorite thing I’ve ever quilted. The book releases Thursday. Find it at https://meanderandmake.com/kits/book-of-many-mini-quilts/
This one is called Finding the Way. It’s a mini qu This one is called Finding the Way. It’s a mini quilt pattern from my new book, Book of Many Mini Quilts. Releases this Thursday: https://meanderandmake.com/kits/book-of-many-mini-quilts/
My Happy Home fabric collection is now in stock! My Happy Home fabric collection is now in stock! 

Happy Home is an 18-print collection filled with sweet florals, little houses, checks, and those soft, cheerful colors I love so much.

We have a limited amount of bundles and yardage available now, plus two Happy Home wide backs for finishing your quilts. Find all of it at meanderandmake.com
One of the new lessons up in the Lulu Louise class One of the new lessons up in the Lulu Louise class. We’re planning our FMQ. Come quilt with us! Quiltyclass.com
The Lulu Louise quilt top is finished! 💕 Chapter The Lulu Louise quilt top is finished! 💕

Chapter 4 of the Lulu Louise Quilty Class is all about bringing everything together, and I tried something a little different with this one.

Instead of attaching all of the background pieces to each foreground column individually, I chain pieced them. It definitely required a little extra brainpower to keep everything in the right order 😆, but it made the process feel so much quicker.
Then it was just a matter of sewing all those finished columns together and watching Lulu Louise finally become a quilt top.

And now we get to move on to one of my favorite parts... free motion quilting!

Chapter 4 is available now inside the Lulu Louise Quilty Class. 💕
• Pattern included
• Beginner-friendly
• Completely self-paced
• Quilty Club members already have access
There are 4 of these Balance Background bundles le There are 4 of these Balance Background bundles left over at meanderansmake.com all 1/2 yards, all low volume.
I LOVE my job! 🥰 Chapter 4 of the Lulu Louise quil I LOVE my job! 🥰 Chapter 4 of the Lulu Louise quilt class is now available at quiltyclass.com (pattern comes with). We are FMQing it next!! 👏

I haven’t been journaling much, so I thought I’d just put a few things here…
• 🎶 - currently obsessed with Benson Boone
• 🏃🏽‍♀️- up to 4.75 mi
• 📖- Knave and the Moon
Handful of new bundles at meanderandmake.com Handful of new bundles at meanderandmake.com
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